BERLIN: A cheap brand of Chinese-made smart phones carried by major online retailers comes preinstalled with espionage software, a German security firm said on Tuesday.
G Data
Software said it found malicious code hidden deep in the propriety software of the Star N9500 when it ordered the handset from a website late last month.
The find is the latest in a series of incidents where smart phones have appeared preloaded with malicious software.
G Data spokesman Thorsten Urbanski said his firm bought the phone after getting complaints about it from several customers. He said his team spent more than a week trying to trace the handsets maker without success. The manufacturer is not mentioned, he said. Not in the phone, not in the documentation, nothing else. G Data
said the spyware it found on the N9500 could allow a hacker to steal personal data, place rogue calls, or turn on the phones camera and microphone.
G Data said the stolen information was sent to a server in China.
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